Means-End Chain approach to understanding farmers' motivations for pesticide use in leafy vegetables: The case of kale in peri-urban Nairobi, Kenya

Crop Protection

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-80

  Lagerkvist, Carl Johan ^a   Ngigi, Marther ^b   Okello, Julius J ^b   Karanja, Nancy ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Fresh vegetables; Means End approach; Motivations; Peri urban; Pesticide use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ESTHETICS; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LEAFY VEGETABLE; PERIURBAN AREA; PEST CONTROL; PEST OUTBREAK; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA];

EID: 84861006696     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2012.03.018     Document Type: Article

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